Hi,

I have a Dell D600 with an Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01). Normally when I boot the 5.0.1 CD the soundcard is correctly detected and configured.

However, if I boot while I have a USB webcam (046d:08b1 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Notebook Pro, this webcam has a built in MIC) plugged in, and also an Edirol USB-MIDI converter plugged in, on occasion the sound does not get configured correctly and no startup sound is played, and "wavp" is unable to play a sound.

When this happens, rather than the Intel sound card being registered as card0, the USB audio driver gets registered as card0. Whether this is cause or effect of the sound output problems I dunno, but I'm guessing cause.

I am creating a CD for non-technies to use, and I don't want to confuse them by telling them not to plug in their USB devices until after booting is complete.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can coax the boot process into always picking the built-in sound card to be card0? (I can't really tie this to the Intel sound card specifically, since the CD will be used on other computers as well.)

Thanks.

Jim